Published in 1937, the book Northeast, written by Gilberto Freyre, proposes an impressionistic analysis of the social ecology. The sociologist has positioned himself in the contemporary debates concerning the construction of the nation and the establishment of a national heritage. Along its pages, addressed to the future more than to the past, Freyre has accomplished an intellectual work dedicated to the creation of new paths for the Brazilian society, outlined from possibilities glimpsed in its past.
Brazil; Gilberto Freyre; National Heritage